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Let’s get started this week by making a rash assumption that squirrels do not receive junk mail. Either in the form of traditional “snail mail” or some form of electronic communication.
(This, of course, also makes me wonder if snails receive “snail mail.” If not, how do they receive valuable junk...
No matter how many pilgrimages we make to see it, the Mississippi River remains awe-inspiring.
One day last week, your writer had to make a road trip to Cape Girardeau, over in the Show Me State, for an adventure in the health care system. All went well. Actually, the doc said all was “great.”...
Once again this week, we’ll have a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...just bear with me...
...in the “at least we don’t have to worry about this” category...
...yours truly read last week in USA TODAY that the Department of Fish & Wildlife in Vermont was urging people “to take down...
It was Friday, the weather was beautiful, I had just gotten paid, it was my lunch break and I was on my way to the bank.
I’d decided to walk in order to enjoy the warm weather. I took a shortcut across the tracks and was headed down East Vienna when a white SUV with government plates appeared...
It probably wasn’t a good thing to write this when all of my cylinders weren’t firing. Anyway, here we go...
Yours truly spent a good portion of last week as a member of the Malady of the Month Club. Membership benefits included coughing, hacking, a bit of a low-grade fever, three nights without...
Oh, no, you’re saying to yourself, not more bird pictures. And they are gooses...again...
...even better, they are gooses cabooses.
A number of years ago, another traveler on The Journey Through Life suggested that we stop using so many photographs of white-tailed deer in the newspaper.
My thought...
March 4, 2018
Mr. Old Man Winter
North Pole
Alaska, USA 00000
Dear Mr. Winter,
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. Let me begin by asking: Do you have a calendar in front of you? Did you know that it is March in Southern Illinois?
I ask these questions because when I was...
At the time this was started, on a Sunday afternoon, even more precipitation was falling from the sky.
I could tell it was precipitating by looking online. After all, that’s where we find out about EVERYTHING nowadays. Right?
Oh, I also looked out the window. Yup. It was raining.
At least the...
This week, we’ll start with apologies to John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buck Owens, all of the folks out there who know how to write lyrics to a song, and anybody and everybody who likes good music...
Just got home in Illinois, freezin’ cold outdoors, oh boy!
Tried to sit down, take...
Let’s start off this week with an item from the “I’m kind of jealous” category...
...if you can believe what you see online (and that would be practically everything...right?)...a friend had an opportunity to meet John Prine...
...moving on...with an item from the “This is kind of sad” category...
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